According to the Ministry of Family and Social Policy of Poland, 77,000 citizens of Ukraine started working in Poland. A special law has contributed to the increase in the number of jobs, giving simplified access to the labor market for Ukrainian refugees.
Half of them perform simple physical work - 47.5%. Else 14.1% are employees of industrial enterprises, 10.3% are employed in the service and trade sectors, 8.5% are office workers and 4% are specialists.
According to BBC World News, more than three million Ukrainians have crossed the border into Poland. The resettlement collapse was avoided only with the help of hundreds of volunteers who provided assistance to the settlers.
American journalists cited two volunteers as an example: Ciro Orsini, founder of the Let's Help Children Now Foundation, creator of the Ciro's Pomodoro restaurant chain, and Yaroslav Gordienko, a volunteer of the Open Dialogue Foundation, who was previously Ciro's Pomodoro business development director.
"When I heard about the war in Ukraine, where I had three restaurants, I immediately went to the border with Poland to pick up my nephew and his wife, who were fleeing the hostilities. When I arrived, I was very happy to see Yaroslav Gordienko. 12 years later we found each other. It turned out that he and his wife Victoria (founder of the Open Dialogue Foundation - editorial note) help IDPs from Ukraine find housing." notes Ciro Orsini.
The restaurateur says that he helped the migrants in other matters. In particular, he prepared food for them. "I used to spend five or six aces a day cooking, " notes Ciro Orsini.
"We moved here with my family to work a few months before the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine. From the first day, when the war started, we decided that we are a part of this, and that we should help people as much as possible. Therefore, we created the Open Dialogue Foundation," says Yaroslav Gordienko.
According to Yaroslav Gordienko, the foundation's volunteers find housing for IDPs, instruct them on how to properly draw up documents and which authorities to go to for registration.
"Thanks to my wife Victoria, we managed to accommodate more than 300 people in Warsaw and other cities so that they could stay there as long as needed. Volunteers of the foundation visit the bus and railway stations. They find families there who have no plans, no idea where they are going. We take these people and find them homes. The Poles help the Ukrainians a lot from the first meter at the border to the last, if the refugees leave Poland," Yaroslav Gordienko concluded.